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Fecha(s)
- 1979 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
4 pp; Typescript
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Baptismal name: Leo McKnight
Religious name: Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 14 July 1929
Place of birth: Kilkeel, County Down (Diocese of Down and Connor)
Name of father: Thomas McKnight
Name of mother: Elizabeth McKnight (née Hughes)
Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 3 Oct. 1949
Date of first profession: 4 Oct. 1950
Date of final profession: 4 Oct. 1953
Date of ordination (as priest): 30 May 1957
Educational attainments: BA (1953)
Missionary activities: Travelled to Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia), on 5 Nov. 1957; Zambian Mission Custody Consultor, from 1973-6, 1976-9; Regular Superior of the Zambian Mission Custody from 1979-85.
Date of death: 21 Dec. 2012
Place of death: Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dublin
Place of burial: Dardistown Cemetery, Dublin
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Alcance y contenido
Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in Zambia compiled by Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Regular Superior, for the Provincial Chapter. The report is arranged into the following sections:
- A spirit of openness
- Office in common
- Decreasing numbers of missionaries
- Provincial Visitation
- Preparation for the Chapter
- The First Mission Chapter
- Withdrawal from some stations
- The House of Formation
- Pastoral Council
- The death of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
- Conclusion